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Just calculate the actual latency in nanosenconds, not the CL rating in cycles. Bandwidth increases only make a difference in a few edge-cases and those edge cases tend to be overblown because articles that test memory bandwidth go out of their way to find edge cases that can show the difference bet...

I've recently had to find a replacement haswell CPU for an old Phenom II that died and needed fixing on a super-low budget. I had a haswell board going spare but the cheapest chip I could find on ebay/craigslist was over $50 :\ On the other hand, 3770 and 3770K can be found cheap - they're the one c...

RIP, but I'm still staggered and amazed he survived to 76 years old. Sure, his condition worsened over the years, but the 'experts' presumed he'd be dead by the end of the 1960's. As rubbish as living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was, we as a species must be incredibly thankful that it allowed...

Oh man, Virtual ON makes me want to replay SHOGO M.A.D. again. Grrr! You just made me remember that I never did beat that last boss! He kept stepping on me! :evil: That boss was trivial once you worked out that there was a door with a hatch in it too small for the boss but big enough for you. Pop o...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Legion-Y520-15IKBN-7700HQ-FHD-GTX-1050-Ti-Laptop-Review.223480.0.html#toc-display Screen PWM is at almost 22KHz, according to Notebookcheck. They do some pretty in-depth testing on the screens and it's a decent one, if not amazing. The response times aren't great...

IGPs are fine if you don't need AAA gaming. My laptop is a 14" Lenovo 320s and the Intel HD 620 is fine for pretty much everything except modern games. Even AAA games often run at 720p30 and a lot of the very popular stuff like Overwatch, Dota2, Rocket League etc will be acceptable if not a pre...

Lenovo Y520 isn't a bad option for what you're after. It's reasonably understated for a gaming laptop and it's a plastic chassis model that's on the better build-quality side of things. Being plastic obviously makes it cheaper and around a pound lighter than the magnesium/aluminium options. IIRC, al...

Would it be worthwhile to wait for the eighth generation i7 to become available? I'm thinking yes, because this opens up options for more cores. That's available now in Sager models, but not yet in Eurocom (not as of about a week ago, anyway). I'm also hoping that manufacturers such as Sager and Eu...

I would buy a graphics card to replace the GTX960. The Haswell i5 you have is reasonably good, and to get a meaningful upgrade you would need to spend $650 on a CoffeeLake 6-core ($300), a Z370 board ($125), a new cooler ($50+), some hideously-overpriced DDR4 ($200). After spending that $675 or more...

The odd mistake I can forgive, especially since a lot of people don't speak English as a first language. Whm's post was a disaster from start to finish and not even in the right subforum, just to add the proverbial cherry on top of that train-smash. My grammar-nazism was intentional, to point out th...

On a related note, it would be interesting to revisit how modern games respond to different numbers of cores/threads with some scientific testing. Since nothing meaningful has changed with the architecture since Skylake, we should be able to get the full range of 2/2, 2/4, 4/4, 4/8, 6/6, 6/12 and d...

I have a 24 oz container about a quarter of of change and other one of the same type half full with food(stale?). My plan is save up any change and once both of them are full or three years passes, and cash in the change for building a new system. I will going back to school so working part time is...

Ah fair enough. Almost certainly unity gain (0dB) already. Seriously though, check out Room EQ Wizard. If your speakers are decent and even remotely level-matched to your sub, you can use it to tweak the crossovers manually, and then smooth out the remaining peaks and troughs. Room interference is s...

There may be more to it than just the four-core four-thread thread limit. Sure, Intel slowed down development and dribbled out performance improvements to desktop processors at a slow pace when AMD wasn't challenging them, but even at +5% per generation, a lot of time has passed since the Core i5-2...

0 dB = full blast anywhere. You don't want that on an amp for daily driving. :) No, not 0dB volume attenuation, 0dB input gain . Sometimes this is called unity gain , but it just depends on how geared towards studio use the kit is, usually. I tend to think of it as a pre-amp setting. For my Presonu...

Do the speakers not have a 0db gain setting on their volume knob? It's a minor point but that'll be the likely setting at which the speakers are at their best. I'd recommend using the DAC's volume control , or an inline control knob since the Dragonfly Black doesn't have one. Assuming you ha...

Just this week I've had the experience of upgrading someone who was gaming on a 2500K. I found them a used GTX 970, doubled their RAM to 16GB and threw an SSD in there that I had lying around. Don't get me wrong; They were thrilled with the upgrade from mechanical storage and their GTX 460, but I kn...

What's the GPU? You could try flashing the BIOS but they're not the sort of thing that vendors tend to offer. Nonetheless, and at your own risk, there are plenty of sites that have GPU BIOS repositories and flashing tools. I'd still be tempted to swap monitors with another system if you can, just to...

3440x1440@100Hz is a lot of bandwidth. Are you using the right-spec cables, and are they shorter than 6 feet? That refresh/resolution combination is on the way to 20GBit/s and you're going to need at least a DP 1.2a cable to handle that, probably a short one to ensure the bandwidth isn't going to be...

Oh, I've seen that before - Progressive scan over DVI- X with EDID horizontal resolution mismatch; It commonly used to happen on 1366x768 panels that were reporting by the EDID as 1360x768 instead. 1) Bad cable - have you tested with another one yet? 2) Faulty EDID entries in monitor firmware - eith...

[Microsoft] used to sell products to their customers. More recently they've switched over to the Google/Facebook model, where they sell users to their customers. QFT. Though it raises the question of "Why does Windows 10 still cost money?" I'll pay for control of my OS, or I'll take a fre...